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P.E.T. Professional Development Program

The P.E.T. Professional Development Program focuses on enhancing teachers’ professional experience by providing them with knowledge of their unique teaching and learning style. This vital self-awareness supports them on the journey to an authentic teaching and learning environment.

This program strives to accomplish the following:

• Support teachers’ instructional skill and enable them to facilitate student learning with new teaching strategies
• Make the teacher workload more manageable, thereby enriching the teaching and learning experience for teachers and students
• Enable teachers to connect more easily with students so they can align their teaching style with different student learning styles
• Empower teachers personally in dealing with stress, conflict resolution, communication and teamwork

“How has P.E.T. impacted my teaching? In a number of ways. First, by being aware of differences in how my students learn, I find it is much easier to create activities that allow everyone to have success. I now create assignments and projects that are presented in a variety of ways and can be completed in myriad formats. By being aware of differences in how my students learn, I find it is much easier to create activities that allow everyone to have success.”
- Wayne Lincoln, High School Teacher

Program plan

• The school training facilitator completes the P.E.T. profile
• The school training facilitator participates in a two-hour online training session
• The school training facilitator coordinates the completion of the P.E.T. teaching and learning profile by all teachers participating in the professional development program
• The school training facilitator acts as a facilitator of the P.E.T. Professional Development Workshop, presented to all school personnel participating in the program (all workshop materials provided)

Metrics

• Completion of teacher profiles
• P.E.T. usage reports on professional development participants
• Observable consideration of learning styles as part of instruction strategies

Expected outcomes

• Increased awareness and understanding among faculty of student learning styles and preferences, providing the foundation for a respect-based relationship between teacher and student
• Empowered teachers that are more in tune with their personal teaching and learning styles and the potential impact of their style on student learning
• Enhanced communication among staff and between teachers and students and staff and families

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